top where square burns as a gypsy liberals squash over president morsi his rule believing and on spoken peace accord between the two sides in tatters. under pressure accuses an american court of forcing a group of russians arrested in the u.s. over a week ago to admit their own involvement in a conspiracy against the u.s. . and the british foreign office denies world war two veterans a russian medal issued to commemorate their service saying the act of bravery goes

too far in the past. hello and welcome to you r t with me karen terror well it was a riotous nine talk we're square with egyptian liberals and islam is struggling out their differences in a hail of rocks fire bombs and even bullets it all began with an opposition rally against president morsi and his first one hundred days in power but the gathering was soon joined by the muslim brotherhood and as journalist bell true reports that's when things turned ugly. what happened was there were two protest organized one by the liberal forces who were complaining against most these last one hundred days this plan that he said they would be able to to achieve significant change at the key social issues in egypt and also against the constituent assembly were currently drafting egypt's national charter which is being dropped in

a quite islamist way so we had the liberals who were here to protest against that at the same time the the brotherhood came down there was organized protests in the brotherhood and the brotherhood political party of the njt the freedom and justice party against the recent ruling acquitting twenty five people who were involved reports of involved in the back of the camel one of the bloodiest battles of the eighteen days last year when we had really was liberals and islamists in particular prova had to go to this meeting on to here which then erupted in clashes and kind of top street and just behind me as you can see by the museum i personally witnessed a lot of rock throwing several very heavy head injuries throwing we have heard gunshots there's been no police presence whatsoever even though in more seize a hundred day plan he did say that he would up security in the country and reassure people that they wouldn't see scenes like this which is what we're witnessing right now there is obviously a growing political islam happening in this country what we saw recently was the supreme guide of the muslim brotherhood he made quite

a contentious statement recently calling for jihad or holy war on jerusalem to wrestle it away from the jewish population and give it back to the muslims this is a very contentious statement made morsi himself the president hasn't affirmed that distance himself from the statement but of course the spot many fear is in addition we're seeing a massive a sion of the constitution which is obviously key at the moment key articles in the constitution like article two an article thirty six relating to the egyptian penal code and those who really can see women's rights are really saying a lot of islam is ation in that people are saying that the egyptian law should not just derive from from islamic sharia but actually follow islamic sharia these are one of the ongoing battles within the constituent assembly so basically what we're saying is on a grassroots level and a national level the political level quite a heavy islam isolation of egypt. and james john thomas who is a former u.s. senate foreign policy analyst says the brotherhood's calls to seize jerusalem shows

us exactly what its goals are but we were seeing a very rapid islamisation of the political structure in egypt and nobody should be surprised at this. there was a lot of discussion about the power struggle that would ensue between morsi and the military and it seems that morsi in the brotherhood have triumphed much quicker than anybody expected and nobody should doubt what their ultimate intentions are in terms of strict enforcement of sharia and they recreate the caliphate the khilafah so i think this statement about the jihad to recapture jerusalem should not come as any surprise to anyone i don't think the peace treaty with israel ultimately will be honored but we will see what form that takes and what it will take it i think the most important thing that strikes me is it shows the utter incoherence of american policy in the arab world by promoting the islamization of egypt to the removal of our longtime satrap in egypt hosni mubarak and then we seem surprised

that democracy in egypt has taken this direction well egypt is not the only arab country seeing violence and police brutality in the streets coming out bahrain security forces once again lash out at peaceful protesters demanding political reforms as the monarchy of reinforces ties with its powerful military great britain . basco claims that a group of russian citizens arrested in the last earlier this month were forced to admit they were involved in a illegally exporting high tech electronics to russia diplomats say the suspects are being put under psychological pressure more on that from our peter oliver. all we've seen is a statement being issued by the russian foreign ministry regarding the four russian citizens currently still in custody who have been charged with the illegal export of military technology the foreign ministry suggesting that these four russians are being put under extreme psychological and moral pressure in order to get them to

sign calm the foreign ministry is also wanting a review of the decision to deny these citizens bail it has taken the media by storm a little bit it has been all over the media that this is some kind of spy scandal that is dismissed by the foreign ministry they say all you have to do is look at the charges that have been leveled against these four russian citizens that their criminal charges the families of these russian citizens have been expressing concern over the way that they are being treated while in custody there's been suggestions that they're being forced to sleep on the floor there in very crowded cells these four russian citizens were picked up on the third of october as part of a group of eleven people that the f.b.i. wanted to speak to in connection with the export of high tech technology from the united states to russia it's believed that technology has a potential military use they were picked up in houston in texas over the next few days they're going to be moved to new york where the first hearings on this case

will be heard next week great britain has signed a military treaty with bahrain which focuses on the joint training of troops and valves to back the country in case of external aggression the deal comes amid here among the countries opposition which continues to be queues at the security forces of a violent crackdown on peaceful protesters demonstrations packed menow my streets once again on friday calling for the monarchy to ease its choking grip and move for reforms police lashed out at them using riot gear to disperse the rally while at least ten people were arrested dominick from bahrain's justice and development men believes western nations have too much to lose from reforms and. obviously it doesn't send a particularly front. stick message when you're sending weapons to a country that is using weapons against its people on a daily basis to kill. to crush protests to crush essentially democracy but i think . the reason why why the u.s.

and other countries do that is because they want to keep bahrain as an ally iran is seen as an ally of western countries and therefore they want to try and keep that relationship but what these governments don't realize that they are not refuse to realize they have a huge amount of leverage they have a lot of ability to convince the right not to pressure them into reform perhaps they misunderstand the strategy how it will perhaps you know they're scared that their interests which are tied up in that region could be damaged if they you know if there were a democratic change but the reality is the people who are behind the calling for democracy they're calling for change i don't have to be against the western interests actually i could be very much in the interests of the west and i know the rest of the world democratic and stable country well maybe easy to ignore what's happening in bahrain it's proving to be a lot harder for some countries to turn a blind eye to what's going on at home spanx national day fractures spaniards catalonian separatists now taking to conley anti independence march and their stronghold of barcelona more on that after this break.

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to put them in super bowl filled with cabbage and making sure you can have many as a starter main dish. although it would draw them all over the most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting there are only a few decide to participate. when you look upon martin. as in the middle of a swamp only accessible by air transport in the summer months in winter a path is clear for the dogs it's inhabited by so bear in a large muslim minority that migrated head before the russians.

and this. israel siberia maybe not the stuff of tourist brochures but distinctive enough to show that after all these years sober is still not quite like anywhere else. back to karen town. decades ago thousands of britons of their lives on the line for both their country and its allies but getting recognition for their bravery today seems harder than showing at. the story. think the worst journey in the world winston churchill's description of the grim ordeal faced the british soldiers who were part of the arctic convoys during world war two getting supplies to russian forces the convoy faced danger from above and below

a nazi you base and aircraft it was carved into the spray and. have their. temperature. below zero i was nineteen years of age eighteen years of age gone up to russia and then do an order . but we done it. because of the chop at. jill stories and memories are among the most harrowing of the war for the russians it was more than just supplies it was psychological support contributing hugely to the war effort that's why in april the russian president awarded the issue of medal to the allies taking part in the convoy missions but incredibly pushed governments blocking russia from rewarding british veterans for their valor. r.t.

course in recognition of your outstanding contribution inter allied cooperation due to world war two the description american attack. apparently unless the british government. is a non starter what i think. forgivable war the foreign office says it's against the rules in order for permission to be given for an award to be accepted there has to be a specific service to the country concerned and that service should have taken place within the previous five years films wife says that's ridiculous they are all late eighty's early ninety's some of them what on earth are they supposed to do over the last five years they still pray at maine or what they were during the war it never leaves. so why are they being painted and not being given this.

i think it's disgraceful absolutely disgraceful angry not just from a whole mile the ship might those. and those who passed on across the bows please cite to me this disgusting john says it's time the current prime minister says that to the decent thing common diver a while now should we was there then dice yes we were all in together. the russians the americans the belgium yes we were all in it together they proudly we've been left there because you believe we can lift this medal everybody. but the foreign countries get a win ok the campaign is in both britain and russia refusing to back down into the government to get these men promptly rewarded for their bravery it's only nation. really extraordinary service and they are sick.

people during the work to see that. t. pivotal war time he found friendship real adversity is straighted by just pictures and stories of his time working with the russians downsizing and bartering these are the medals that john received for his heroic deeds cheering world war two he was taping along with the other veterans involved in the arctic convoys to add called medal to their collection but as long as the british government continues to refuse to allow them to be awarded they won't be adding that medal they say. sarah r.t. london. more stories. including how u.s. election fever has literally not some americans off their feet one of barack obama's secret service agents hits the bottle and passes out on

a sidewalk in miami right after the presidential visit to the city. and find out why europe's most neutral and stable state is mobilizing troops preparing for mass civil unrest. wracked by a devastating debt crisis mass protests and a rise of radicalism but it's not all gloom for the e.u. though the blog has been awarded the nobel peace prize for sowing peace across europe but reaction has been to say the least varied with cheers in paris in sharp contrast to shock disbelief enough that it's international investor and author james rogers says the blocks achievements are in for a test. i assure you next week or next month when people are on rising in the

streets again in parts of europe they're not going to care about the stope peace prize nobody's going to remember it except whoever gets the check but the checks going to be spent just like that but there's going to be a lot more pain in europe europe has been spending money they don't have that's going to have to stop and it's going to cause more riots in the streets more social unrest more governments failing and perhaps even countries failing and perhaps even people pulling out of the euro conceivably if you have a huge amounts of tension in europe and the euro breaking up that could increase tension not diminish tension and could lead to war again in europe i'd be far fetched to be a long way away but it could happen again if this causes if the present circumstances cause the year old to break up. and that turns to europe's unity is already underway in spain where tensions over catalonia as bad for independence came to a head even as the nobel peace prize was being awarded calls for

a breakaway state in the spanish region of cloud aloni are among the loudest in the e.u. with feelings running high among the people there a mass anti-war staring the protest is expected in the capital madrid as well that's going to be part of a chain of synchronized protests happening in more than thirty five cities around the world today but with regard to catalonia barometer a senior researcher at the european think tank fried says it's part of a bigger e.u. problem. this really reveals a kind of a kind of for real crisis either in spain or in the lot also a few up in countries and obviously we can disconnect that cats are doing the issue from the global financial crisis that is going on in the european union but that said when it comes to this this attribution of a noble prize to the european union obviously it comes into contradiction with boasts what the european union is doing on the european level and whether you use

doing in the rest of the world so i think that's i mean the same way that we've seen at the same way that happened a few years ago when obama got the nobel peace prize i think that what is going on is that we can see that the nobel peace prize he's much more a symbolical stance as symbolical process or decision that has the aim of just favoring some actors in order to push them to do better than what they are doing russia has rebuffed turkish claims that a damascus bounce a billion ply from moscow was carrying weapons foreign minister sergei lavrov has said at the passenger plane the plane contained only radio gear and its transportation was in accordance with international norms on wednesday and qatar scrambled fighter jets to force the syrian plane to land and sent masked soldiers to see. the cargo after around nine hours at a turkish airport with passengers barred from leaving the plane the contents were confiscated and the jet was allowed to continue on to damascus the turkish prime

minister and later said the flight was used to illegally transport russian made ammunitions to the syrian government u.s. based analyst jeff steinberg says that allegations are an attempt to hide its own arms smuggling to the syrian rebels. turkey saudi arabia qatar are involved in violating international law it's an open secret that there are massive amounts of weapons many of which were originally taken through stock files in the libya they're going into the hands of the armed rebels many of whom are radical all qaeda linked. the jihadi so turkey has been one of them it is only mean the rebels so i think that this incident was an attempt to cover for their own lie elation of the same sions and their

own abuse of any kind. of mediating. in this crisis for analysis and the timeline of the stories lined up at r.t.e. dot com where you can also find exclusives and firsthand reports from the passengers and the crew of the syrian plane intercepted by turkey they describe how badly they were treated at an airport and. to some other news from around the world now at least fifteen people have been killed and around forty wounded in a suicide bombing in pakistan the attack occurred at a local market in the northwestern region of the country and supposedly targeted fighters of a pro-government militia the group was created as a counterweight for the taliban the pakistani military has launched several offensive. against the taliban which seeks to oust the country's government. colombia's capital both are has been rocked by massive protests as students and

activists one of the streets demanding changes in the country's economic policies police responded with tear gas and water cannon arresting more than seventy people as they protested against financial inequality demonstrations were not limited to the capital only as around three hundred thousand people participated nationwide. iranian officials have announced the country may consider limiting your raynham enrichment that's if it's provided fuel for a scientific reactor from abroad iran's foreign ministry said that if foreign powers respect its right to have nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes it could keep its own enrichment below twenty percent the country is suffering from western backed economic sanctions aimed at holding its nuclear program the u.s. and israel accused of secretly making atomic weapons though no definite proof of that has been found. as religious influence on u.s.

public policy increases a growing number of americans all to skip sunday service parties laurie harshness has been asking new yorkers what they feel about going to church. a new pew poll indicated one in five americans has no religion and more and more americans are becoming atheists is america losing its religion and if so why this week let's talk about that i think as we get smarter we realize all the religions with this name you look at each different book every book has a similar story. it's all the same we're on one planet there should be one war doesn't matter if you're in pakistan or new jersey what i see more people that maybe keep to themselves i mean you can be religious without going to a sanctuary or something along those lines so i think the perception has probably changed i just got baptized last year everybody has their own way of coming to

their beliefs but for us it was just you know we're getting older and you know we're getting closer to those they say the pearly gates. but we're grose was insurance you got baptized for insurance purposes. believe what you want to believe but don't force it on other people or use it for you know things that hurt other people is that what it is is that people see organized religion as something detrimental to other people well i'm speaking i guess for mostly myself here but yeah that's what makes sense to me yeah when you see wars being waged in the name of religion it makes it yes the bottom line is american seems to be losing their faith in organized religion which might be less of a sign of their waning spirituality and more of an indication that it might be time to reorganize. while western countries lament the golden age of growth and booming consumer

spending in india even the low standards of living can't shake people's belief in the future priya sridhar has more. in a country where every one in three people is still living in poverty it's hard to imagine things are looking up but many people in india seem to think that's the case for most notably believe. stronger. economy going to the store and that's where the people are feeling strong and while the poverty rate in the us is still less than half the rate in india some experts say that indians are actually more optimistic about their economy than those in the west. you know. my quality of life might not be as high but if we can see that i can prove it and it was trying to say it's a relative thing really about. so much about where you are where you can get to. and i think a lot of western economies feel like the best parts need in the u.s.

. according to a recent poll almost seventy percent of indians categorize the economic situation in the country as good making it one of the top five most economically confident countries in the world in the u.s. less than thirty percent of people were positive about the economic situation while india's economy is in tremendous growth over the years the rate of growth has been cut in half in the last five still several polls suggest the consumer confidence is up here and many believe that's because the government has put in place reforms that's going to keep the country's economy moving in the right direction. the most talked about reform foreign direct investment would open up india to multi brand international retailers like wal-mart and tusk but recent reforms definitely makes indians more confident p.s. if you look at the protocol one man. does more than there will be a lot of competition so i expect that things will be much better being

a. different vistas the world's a growing bones of mining. so. we have the money on the consumer has good power. so we're going to buy your products. optimism when the rest of the world is more cautious about what's in store preassure either r t new delhi india and in just a few minutes i'll go to talks the head of the council of europe to discuss its current relationship with russia that's all the spotlight. the legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape buildings still ting over their foundation pipes being black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the bergen

archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worst the better that can do nine hundred eighty bearings work was a burgeoning mining community. was determined to maintain at all costs to a degree located halfway between north america and western europe the bergen archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the us is ours westernmost outpost now it's one of the last preserved relics. picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travellers the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than stand there it's. an effort it's not very

popular with tourists if you come into a very place like. it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be the time to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to their repertoire the audience called the wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar. live.